No NEET-UG For Ukraine-Returned Students, Mamata Banerjee Requests PM
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"It is requested that the relevant guidelines may be relaxed as a very special case to accommodate these students," Mamata Banerjee said in the letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi requesting exemption for Ukraine-returned medical students from NEET-UG for admission to colleges.
In the letter, Ms Banerjee acknowledged that the regulator National Medical Commission, or NMC, has allowed foreign medical graduates with unfinished internships due to compelling situations that are beyond their control, like COVID-19 and the Ukraine war, to finish it in India after clearing a screening test.
The Bengal Chief Minister, however, said many medical students who have returned from Ukraine "do not meet this requirement", and drew attention to the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (Undergraduate), or NEET-UG, which they should clear to get admission in India's medical colleges. She said 391 students have returned from Ukraine to Bengal and they are "passing though severe stress and anxiety due to uncertain future".
"It is requested that the relevant guidelines may be relaxed as a very special case to accommodate these students," Ms Banerjee said in the letter.
